Deleted posts, why?
I am posting this on here again, because I am not only totally annoyed by the ignorance of the Wilksch company, but now also because my post (and some others), regarding this issue, has been removed from this thread, by some moderator who, apparently, does not like to hear the truth! I am wondering how long this post will stay on here, this time!
Since somebody asked it before: No!....., Wilksch is not a company that is supportive and customer friendly!
I met Marc Wilksch and some of his associates , 4 years ago, at the bar of the hotel that I stayed in, when I was visiting Aero Friedrichshafen 2005. He convinced me to build an RV 9 and install his new diesel engine, that he was selling to the experimental market. The WAM120 was already finished and the WAM160 was coming very soon. Mind you, this was the inventor/engineer/manager/director himself!
Before ordering my kit, I met Marc Wilksch again in the UK, demonstrating his WAM120 equiped plane to me at the PFA ralley (static, not flying!). After a while, I ordered the RV9 kit and started building. While building, I tried to keep in touch with WAM and found out that Marc Wilksch had left the company. I spoke to several other people in the company, but they never came back to me and I was not able to get any firm commitment or place an order for my engine, at all!
I actually flew to the UK, again, to see the owner of a plane, that was equipped with a WAM120. Unfortunately the plane had problems with the fuel supply and there was a problem with the pre-combustion chambers, that had to be replaced (apparently on all engines). The plane had only flown a dozen hours or so and could not be flown during my visit.
After trying to get a confirmation for the delivery of an engine from WAM for another 1/2 year or so, without any response from Wilksch Airmotive, I gave up and started looking for another engine.
For me this was a total waste of time and money. I even made changes to my plane, to accommodate the diesel engine, all for nothing! It would be unfair to other builders, who are interested in this engine, and still think they can just go out and buy it, to withold this information.
Kind regards, Tonny.